Vaccinations?

Some thoughts and facts

IS IT REALLY THE WAY TO WORLD HEALTH?
A VACCINATION EPIDEMIC
by Holly Mills (from the March 2004 "Thy Kingdom Come" - a
publication of The Association of the Covenant People)
"What? Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost
which is in you, which ye have of God and ye are not your own?"
(1 Cor. 6.79)
Why is there this extreme push in the world today to vaccinate?
Examples of this are the current push to get a flu vaccination or
a vaccination for Hepatitis "B". From the time we are born we are
bombarded with a series of vaccinations. We are encouraged to
give our children vaccinations from the time they are babies, but
what are these vaccinations doing to them?
In a quote from Congressman Daniel Burton (R-Indiana) on June 18,
2000 in his opening statement to the House Committee on
Government Reform's hearing on mercury and medicine he stated:
"We assume that the FDA would protect our children from exposure
to any level of mercury through drugs. But that has not been the
case. Thimerosal was first marketed in 1930 and has become the
most widely used preservative in vaccines. It is present in over
50 licensed vaccines. The FDA recently acknowledged that in the
first six months of life children get more mercury than is
considered safe by the EPA. The truth is that sometimes kids go
to their doctor's office and get four or five vaccines at the
same time. My grandson received vaccines for nine different
diseases in one day. He might have been exposed to 62.5
micrograms of mercury in one day through his vaccines. According
to his weight, the maximum safe level of mercury that he should
be exposed to in one day is 1.51 micrograms. This is 41 times the
amount at which harm can be caused." (Mothering magazine
March-April 2001). The article then states that Congressman
Burton's grandson, who was perfectly healthy before the
vaccinations, now has autism.
Today there appears to be this mind-set, especially in North
America, to vaccinate for everything. The minute we hear of a new
flu, or something that threatens us, we immediately want to
vaccinate. Obviously we want to protect our children, but are
vaccinations necessarily always the correct way to do this?
In a quote by Richard Moskowitz, MD from the September 1998 Alive
magazine he says: "It is dangerously misleading, and indeed, the
exact opposite of truth, to claim that a vaccine makes us
"immune" or protects against disease. In fact, it only drives the
disease deeper into the interior and causes us to harbor it
chronically, with the result that our responses to it become
progressively weaker and show less and less tendency to heal or
restore themselves spontaneously."
There is such pressure on many new parents to vaccinate that they
can feel intimidated and overwhelmed. I was talking with one of
my neighbours and she is now feeling concern for her two young
children over the threat of a major new world flu epidemic. She
does not want her children to be vaccinated but is feeling
pressure if the threat should escalate and that is what is
recommended.
In a quote from Barbara Loe Fisher in a conference at the
National Vaccination Information Center in September 1997 she
says: "There is no hard, basic science research to back up
categorical assertions by government officials that the DPT and
MMR vaccines never, ever cause residual seizure disorder,
permanent brain damage or immune system dysfunction" and that
"there have never been large, well designed studies to identify
and compare all morbidity and mortality in vaccinated and
unvaccinated populations to try and evaluate the true background
rates of seizure disorders, mental retardation, learning
disabilities, autism, diabetes, asthma, arthritis and cancer."
(Alive magazine September 1998)
It is interesting that when we buy food we read the ingredients
on the label but we are so willing to have a vaccination without
knowing anything about what it contains. "Some commonly used
vaccination ingredients include: aluminium phosphate, aluminium
hydroxide, phenoxyethanol (antifreeze), sucrose, sorbitol, and
formaldehyde. In addition, some vaccines include animal
ingredients. SmithKline Beecham's diphtheria and tetanus vaccine
includes porcine pancreatic bydrolsate of casein and Connaught's
inactivated polio includes VERO cells, a continuous line of
monkey kidney cells .... One of the most contentious ingredients
in vaccines may be thimerosal (mercury). Thimerosal has been
traditionally used as a preservative, most commonly in the
influenza vaccine." (News from the British Columbia Naturopathic
Association, Your Health, Vol. 8/No. 4/ Fall 2002).
Mercury is highly toxic and it does not easily leave the body!
Are vaccinations really necessary or do they just weaken our
immune systems and make us ill? We live in very complex times and
must examine all things. Our children are our future. What we put
into their bodies is of huge importance to their future. Possibly
the best thing we can do for them is to keep them as healthy as
possible and build up their immune system. I find it ironic that
there was such a great push for everyone to get the flu shot this
winter (2003/4). Now they are reporting that the flu shot, that
they were just recommending so highly, does not protect against
the current flu virus! As well, at the time of writing this
article an announcement has just come out warning against
Mercury-based preservatives in vaccines. Quoting from The
Vancouver Sun, February 5, 2004: "In a study that was rushed to
print on-line today, two months ahead of its scheduled
publication in the journal Molecular Psychiatry, U.S. researchers
have discovered an apparent link between thimerosal, a
controversial mercury-based preservative once commonly used in
childhood vaccines, to an increased risk of neurological
disorders such as autism and ADHD.... As of March 2001, all
vaccines for routine immunization of children in Canada have been
available without thimerosal. But the annual flu shot, which is
given to children over six months of age - contains the
preservative. And thimerosal is still found in larger, multi-dose
vaccines shipped to Third World countries."
As I see it God gave us an immune system to fight diseases. It
obviously does need help at times, but before resorting to
putting poisons into our bodies, perhaps we should take time to
examine the alternalives.
'Bless the LORD, 0 my soul: and all that is within me, bless his
holy name. Bless the LORD, 0 my soul, and forget not all his
benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who healeth all thy
diseases; Who redeemeth thy life from destruction; who crowneth
thee with lovingkindness and tender mercies; Who satisfieth thy
mouth with good things; so that thy youth is renewed like the
eagles. "(Psa. 103: 1-5)
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Entered on this Website June 2004